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Gouvernor Workers Said Prone to Cane*a y , gouverneur -- a study submittal Jointly by the state Division of Indus trial Hygiene, State Univ ersity of New York and of sufficient lapse of time since the study was begun, " the final word" is not in on the possible connection between talc and cancer, | Downstate Medical Center "However,. Dr. Kohl says in Brooklyn, indicates that that research studies on ' workers employed in the i possible health, haiards of Gouvemeur talc industry v various American talcum are . at least four times 'powders, which contain more likely to die of lung i large percentages of talc, cancer ' than the average i and cosmetics are to get male in the Ujnited States. \ under wayj and be con- cluded w ithin sev eral ' Of the 220 local talc work ers whose physical status and medical histories were researched -- all workers imonths. I ` . " T h e re 'S not enough quality control to. make the "consumer aware that many with at least 15 years of ex -:of these talc products con- posure to talc dust on the tain asbestos," he says, job -- some 91 deaths were t " and that's the cosmet- studied.. , ics...the so-called cream et .Twenty-one per cent of --the cream of the crop se- the deaths were due to can Mected by manufacturers to cer. Almost 28. per c'enl ; represent the cleanest talc were due to heart disease. in the research we are Pneumoconiosis and its j doing. , _ . complications accounted f "From this," Dr. Rohl for 31 per cent. Accidents says, "we can expect that and other causes accounted ` other talc products may for the remaining percen ; have an even greater- as tages. bestos content and find Dr. Arthur Kohl, speak their way into consumers' ing on behalf o the Divi households unannou ced, sion of Industrial Hygiene, 1 " Many surgeons' have says that, because of lack stopped using talc on their --surgical gloves because they've developed skin tu- mors," Dr. Rohl adds, ` `Now they use cornstarch 'instead /' ^'F ederal agencies have found preliminary indica- tioni that lung cancer may be interrelated to employ ment in the tale industry. The National Institute of Safety and Health!NIQSH) Says experts have observed increased Jung cancer in studies of local talc miners. A team of five Industrial hygienists, four from NIOSH and one from the Mine Enforcement Safety Administration(MESA) vis ited Gouvemeur in Novem ber, 1975, and lab analyses Of their Findings are now being conducted at NIOSH labs in Ohio. H f-'- r T / r s j z . PLAINTIFFS EXHIBIT WCD-416 Goodhue WCD 000157